Led · Series A · Jan 2026

SkyFi is an Austin-based Earth-intelligence company offering a web platform, mobile app and developer APIs that make satellite imagery ordering and analytics simple and affordable. Its network of more than 50 imagery partners spans optical, SAR, hyperspectral and aerial data sources, enabling users in defense, energy, finance, agriculture, infrastructure, insurance and other sectors to derive actionable insights without specialized GIS expertise. The dual-use platform supports both civilian and military customers, featuring flexible ordering, transparent pricing and built-in AI analytics. In 2025 the company launched custom platforms for Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence), ICEYE US and Planet to provide instant access to high-resolution imagery. SkyFi was also selected for NATO’s DIANA 2026 Challenge Programme, highlighting its relevance to defense innovation. With fresh capital, the team plans to enhance its user interface, expand analytical tools and deepen partnerships with additional satellite operators to broaden its on-demand data offerings.

Led · Seed · Nov 2025

Hammerhead AI is a San Francisco-based startup developing the orchestrated RL control agents (ORCA) platform, which deploys reinforcement-learning agents to deliver power-aware orchestration for AI factory operators. By transforming power constraints into actionable strategies, the platform boosts token-processing capacity and, in turn, revenue and shareholder value without waiting for grid expansions. Led by CEO Rahul Kar and CTO Rajeev Singh, the company positions itself as a critical layer between infrastructure OEMs and large-scale AI compute facilities. Hammerhead AI plans to use its new capital to accelerate product development, expand global deployments, and deepen collaborations with infrastructure providers and AI factory customers. The $10 million seed round marks the company’s first disclosed financing and provides the resources to scale both engineering and go-to-market operations.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2025

Gravity provides an end-to-end carbon accounting and energy management platform that automates data collection, generates audit-ready sustainability reports, and integrates with customers' existing energy tracking and ESG systems. The platform leverages AI (including LLMs) and bill-scanning to reduce manual disclosure work—one customer reported saving an estimated 4,600 hours annually—and has convinced over 60% of its customers to switch from other providers. Gravity serves Fortune 500 companies, global enterprises, and private equity portfolios, citing customers such as WM, Autodesk, MiddleGround Capital, McCarthy Holdings, TTI, and Wisconsin Aluminum Factory. The company has driven 400% year-over-year revenue growth and reports project-level outcomes including a $2M annual savings from an HVAC optimization and $1M in federal incentives secured for a construction project. Gravity combines automated reporting with a marketplace, financing partnerships, and energy audits to turn carbon accounting into cost-saving actions. The company plans to use the Series A proceeds to invest in product R&D, expand its energy-efficiency marketplace, and grow its team in the US and EU to meet regulatory reporting needs.

Led · Equity · Dec 2024

Sunairio is a Baltimore, MD-based climate and energy analytics startup. Founded by Rob Cirincione, an energy trading veteran, the company develops high-resolution climate simulation technology for the energy sector. Its software platform leverages high-resolution historical climate data and future climate simulations to help renewables investors, energy traders, and utilities simulate energy-asset risk and grid variability. The company plans to use the $6.4M round to grow its team and expand availability of its new climate simulation technology. The round brought total funding to date to $8.8M. Sunairio was awarded an NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant in 2024 for its energy-industry-focused climate simulation technology. Sunairio is the first software platform to leverage hyperlocal climate simulation for energy prediction and planning. Its platform combines generative AI and advanced statistics with outputs from traditional global climate models to replicate local (3-km x 3-km) hourly weather patterns and climate trends for up to 15 years. The company says this approach can produce climate insights at roughly 1,000 times the resolution of traditional physics-based global climate models. Sunairio currently offers hyperlocal simulations for parts of the country and plans to expand these high-resolution insights across all of North America and beyond. An NSF SBIR Phase I grant will fund R&D to build a highly scalable simulation engine intended to make the solution orders of magnitude faster, with the company expecting the R&D to be complete within the year. The platform targets energy stakeholders — including investors, portfolio managers, renewable developers, and grid operators — to improve grid reliability and reduce weather- and climate-driven investment risk.

Participated · Series C · Dec 2024

Raptor Maps develops an integrated operating system for the solar industry called Raptor Solar, which provides a system of record and workflows for asset owners to build, manage, and operate solar sites. The company’s recent product, Raptor Solar Sentry, orchestrates solar operations and maintenance work by people and robotics and is said to enable double-digit gains on financial returns. Raptor Solar aims to improve asset resilience and energy yield while reducing risk and costs for owners. The company plans to accelerate product development with a focus on solar automation, work management, and machine-learning insights. Raptor Maps also intends to expand its team with further investment in software engineering and data science. The announcements frame the company as positioned to help scale solar energy and improve portfolio performance globally. Raptor Maps builds Raptor Solar, a software-as-a-service platform that standardizes and analyzes data across the entire solar lifecycle, from financing and development through operations. The platform serves as an auditable system of record with digital twins, aerial thermal inspection analytics, serial number mapping, warranty claim features, equipment records and mobile productivity tools. Subscribers can quantify financial loss, benchmark portfolios against a global database and streamline warranty and supply-chain verification. Its insights are powered by machine learning and an industry-leading data model created from over 50 GW of solar across 40 countries; the company’s 2022 Global Solar Inspection Report found 2.6% of solar power is affected by anomalies. Customers include large owners, operators and builders such as Tesla, SOLV Energy, Rosendin Electric, Cypress Creek Renewables and McCarthy. The company plans to accelerate hiring and invest in product, software and data science to add workflow automation, work orders, investor reporting and ML-driven insights; Raptor Maps is based in Boston and is a Y Combinator alumnus with founders from MIT. Raptor Maps is a Boston, MA-based solar software company that provides a solar lifecycle management platform used for project finance, development and asset management across the industry. Led by co-founder and CEO Nikhil Vadhavkar, the company has managed the project finance and asset management of over 25 GW in 35 countries. Its customer base includes Enel Green Power, Greenbacker Renewable Energy, McCarthy Building Companies, QE Solar, SOLV and several publicly traded solar panel manufacturers. Raptor Maps raised $5M in a Series A and will use the funding to build on its software platform and expand its business reach. The platform supports multiple segments of the solar value chain from developers to asset owners and O&M providers. Raptor Maps is a Cambridge, Massachusetts–based developer of a drone-enabled technology platform for agriculture. The company provides farmers with a system combining drones, tractor-mounted sensors and software to map, analyze and measure crop quality during the growing season. Its tools help growers make more informed decisions, reduce unnecessary cost and labor, and run statistical A/B testing on chemicals, fertilizers, seed types and techniques. Raptor Maps is led by CEO Nikhil Vadhavkar. The firm is developing a software tool designed to work across all crops. Financially, the company received an investment from Airware’s Commercial Drone Fund (amount undisclosed).